Since 2004, south Florida troublemaker Rat Bastard
has been inviting noise acts, experiment freaks and guitar butchers
from all over America to come to Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood,
where he books three days of shows at Churchill's Pub, dubbed the
International Noise Conference. INC has become an annual tradition,
sending crews of paintsplattered noisemakers and their suitcases
southbound to Florida every February--and frequently bringing half a
dozen shows through Richmond on the way there. For the past couple of
years, Rat Bastard has flipped the program, taking his Miami crew on
tour and selecting INC acts to curate a local show for him in the same
format.
Photo by Ronnie Rivera
Tuesday June 18th will bring Rat Bastard and his crew, the Laundry
Room Squelchers, to Gallery 5, along with a lineup curated by RVA Noise
Fest's Gary Stevens and Matt Boettke. The evening's bill is densely
packed with Richmond's electronic overloaders and sonic bludgeoners.
Here's a breakdown of whats likely to go down.
LAUNDRY ROOM SQUELCHERS - Miami road dogs; Rat Bastard and company, strangled guitar punk and amplifier suplexing. STONE GARDEN JAM TEMPLE - Joe Legz (Contortionist Jazz Exotica/H0-AX), mindmelting splatter freakout MUTWAWA - space futurist Detroit Techno corroded by noise lifer psychic decay, HEAD MOLT x SUPPRESSION CLOSE YOUR EYES I'M CHANGING - uptown art gallery installation heaviness meets bad trip anxiety rockers downtown, spirit jazz for hive mind HEAVY BREATHING - HC machismo reduced to cold hateful electronics A9CONCUSS - over the top rave jungle from Richmond's most talented aesthetic chameleon CHAMPAGNE OF RATS
- Cat Mansion house band; drum machine abuse from Strange Matter/LOST
TRIBE's J. Kassalow and hissing guitar from OLDE SHAME's L. Heinzel STRESS ORPHAN - standout set from RVA NOISE FEST--suburban grindcore maniac gone full out disgusting power-electronics noise; new tape, Trash Pussy, out now DAGGERING - SCANT + FLOODBEAST duo, distort-riddim, buzz & blast, bring yr eyedropper BROADCASTATIC - Audio Visual feedback craftsman, live videodroming, not to be missed while staring at yr smart phone GEORDI LA KORG - heady brass & synth platter, head cleaner for Broadcastatic's VCRs INKLING JUROR (basement gamelan, salvage metal performance art)
June 18th will be a heavy round robin. The event begins at 7 PM. Sets
are limited to 15 minutes, with two different performance areas set up
to minimize downtime. Donations are encouraged, but no one will be
turned away due to lack of funds. Gallery 5 is located at 200 W. Marshall St. For more details on this event, click here.
And for a taste of what's in store, check out the video below, which
was shot during last year's Art Basel Conference. It features an excerpt
from a Rat Bastard set at a house show, during which he was accompanied
by Kenny Millions (sax), Thurston Moore (guitar), Kramer (bass), and Steven Bristol (drums). This sort of chaos will be going down at Gallery 5 tomorrow night--get ready.
Tuesday June 18th 2013 7PM Gallery 5 200 W. Marshall St. Richmond, VA 23220
Miami's noise legends Laundry Room Squelchers are bringing their world famous International Noise Conference to Richmond! Tuesday June 18th at Gallery 5. This is a free all ages event. Starting at 7PM sharp! Donations collected for the touring groups. No one turned away for lack of funds!
15 minute sets! No Laptops! No Droning!
LAUNDRY ROOM SQUELCHERS
STONE GARDEN JAM TEMPLE
MUTWAWA
CLOSE YOUR EYES I'M CHANGING
HEAVY BREATHING
A9CONCUSS
CHAMPAGNE OF RATS
STRESS ORPHAN
DAGGERING
BROADCASTATIC
GEORDI LA KORG
INKLING JUROR
